What To Do When It Rains in Bali

Here we are in paradise. When you think of paradise, at least for me, you think of the hot sun, the beach and just relaxing. But sometimes in paradise it rains. After a day of surfing and waking up sore, we decided to spend an extra night in Legian, Bali. We are within a five minute walk to the beach and thought it would be good just take a full day of laying in the sun, but were rained out after an hour or so. We headed back towards our room and stopped to get some water from the cute little store down Melati Street Gang (gang means an ally type road). Beside the store was Energy Ink, a tattoo shop that we had passed on many occasions. As the rain came down harder we decided to go in and take a look. And that's when it happened. Within the next hour both of us had designed and priced out a tattoo for each of us and booked for the next morning.

Realizing what we were in for

After a lot of thought we decided to put down our deposit. This meant a couple of things for us. We had to book an extra night here in Legian, which at $14 a night we weren't complaining, and we had to change our future travel plans as swimming is out of the question for a bit. The joy of freely traveling with no set plans is we can do whatever we want. So tomorrow we head to Ubud for some relaxing and adventures that do not include swimming. 

We both got tattoos on our sides. This area hurts more than I could imagine but we bared the pain and got through it. The guys at Energy Ink were great, making sure we were OK and the place had a great vibe. I didn't think I would end up doing this on this trip. Back home we would just say YOLO, but here as everyone says; Whatever. It's Bali.